… you should check out this article, which discusses the horrific situation in the Sudan.
For the past 20 years, the regime in Khartoum has bombed, starved, and enslaved black Southern Sudanese with impunity in an effort to subject them to Islamic rule. As a result, over two million black non-Muslims have perished. A further five million have been driven off their land.
Sudanese slaves — mainly women and children — are routinely beaten, raped, genitally mutilated, forced to convert to Islam and racially abused. The scale of this ”crime against humanity” — as slavery is identified in international law — is enormous. Credible estimates of the number of Sudan’s slaves range from tens of thousands to over 200,000.
The US sort of finally woke up to this in the 90s, and … well, did just what self-respecting multilateral nations are supposed to do. The US declared Sudan a terrorist state, it sponsored strong resolutions in the UN Commission for Human rights, and imposed economic sanctions.
Unfortunately, certain EU guardians of international morality see North Africa as their playground, and as a potential economic partner. Thus …
What did the Franco-German duo do? It led the EU in the opposite direction. France provided Khartoum with military intelligence for the prosecution of the jihad, while French and German helicopters have been used for ethnic cleansing in southern Sudan’s oil fields. Driving black, non-Muslims out of their homes creates greater security for the investments of oil firms like Total Fina (France/Belgium) and the German engineering giant Mannesmann.
The Sudanese government’s role in the revival of the country’s once-dormant slave trade formed the greatest single political obstacle to legitimizing the EU’s appeasement policy. France and Germany therefore spearheaded a UN whitewash of this crime against humanity. With the rest of the EU and their new East European satellite states in tow, they overcame American objections and easily persuaded the UN Commission on Human Rights to censor any use of the word ”slavery” from official documents on Sudan and replace it with the euphemism ”abduction” — a lesser offense.
Perhaps they’d like to send some inspectors in, too.